This handbook provides a systematic, up-to-date overview of the Friulian language, both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. Among other things, it presents in-depth discussions of current problems related to regional multilingualism (Friulian beside Italian as dachsprache , Venetian, German, and Slovenian) as well as... more...

The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a unity, based on a number of common features, has been... more...